MP La République en Marche (LRM) Coralie Dubost announced on Sunday 1is mai, se “withdraw from political life”two days after being pinned for her humane management of certain collaborators and the expensive use of her advances for mandate costs, facts that she disputes.
“For the past few days, my person has been targeted by unjust attacks which are a disservice to my political group, the electoral deadlines and more generally democracy”estimates on Twitter the elected representative of the third constituency of Hérault, who has also announced that she will not be a candidate for re-election in the June legislative elections.
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Significant clothing expenses and restaurant costs
According to a report by a human resources firm sent in the spring of 2021 to the ethics officer of the National Assembly, published Friday by Mediapart and of which AFP was aware, former collaborators of Mme Dubost accuse him of having imposed on them “personal tasks”words and behaviors “devaluing” but also a “value conflict” or ” ethics “, in particular on the use of its advances for mandate expenses. It is particularly a question of “monthly clothing expenses within a range of 1,500 to 2,000 euros” or “very high restaurant costs”sets out the report.
“I refuse to be the instrument of an anti-parliamentary cabal, in the same way that I refuse to lend myself to a ping-pong of justifications which border on a phantasmagoric lynching”adds the MP, who indicates that she is retiring from political life and ” devote to [sa] family “.
A MediapartMme Dubost – who, like every deputy, has a monthly advance for mandate expenses of 5,373 euros which is added to the remuneration of elected officials – explained that he had reimbursed expenses deemed unrelated to the exercise of the mandate. of deputy, after a control of the ethics officer of the National Assembly for the years 2018 and 2019.